This episode contains distressing themes, profanity and descriptions of violence.

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Listener caution is advised.

Thank you. audience. Listener caution is advised. The brutal murder of a reclusive widow sparked one of the largest murder inquiries Liverpool

had seen in years. After following numerous dead-end leads, the investigators turn their attention to a pair of petty thieves on the word of criminal informants.

The case against them was purely circumstantial.

Welcome to Season 8, Episode 40 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK true

crime.

This is part one of a two-part case.

The next instalment will be available next week, where you can hear part two in the next few days

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Thomas Rimmer said goodbye to his wife and child before swinging his leg over his bike and cycling out of Madrin Street.

He rode past the entrance to Prince's Park towards his mother's home two miles away in Wavertree.

It was close to 7pm on August 20, 1951,

and the sun had not yet set over Liverpool when Thomas turned onto Cranbourne Road.

The 24-year-old factory worker dismounted his bike as it rolled to the curb at the pathway outside No. 7,

a place familiar to him as this was where he was raised.

The narrow residential street was lined on either side with identical terraced houses with large bay windows.

Jack Grossman, who lived next door in number nine, greeted Thomas and told him that the

half pint of milk on his mother's doorstep had been sitting there curdling in the heat

since morning. Thomas acknowledged what the neighbor said as he approached the wooden paneled front door.

He extended his arm and pressed the doorbell three times in quick succession, waiting for

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